Aura Review

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Pros

Pro

Written in Haskell

Since the application is written in Haskell, it means that, unless the author went out of their way to subvert the type system, at least some classes of bugs must have been eliminated for the project to even compile, and so at least some basic level of stability is guaranteed.

Pro

Similar syntax to pacman

pacman -Ss ghc aura -As ghc

Pro

Run as Root, Build as a User

makepkg gets very upset if you try to build a package as root. That said, a built package can't be handed off to pacman and installed if you don't run as root. Other AUR helpers ignore this problem, but Aura does not. Even when run with sudo, packages are built with normal user privilages, then handed to pacman and installed as root.

Cons

Con

aura is difficult to use for system upgrade.

sudo aura -Syusearches for .sig files for each repository..Sig files are not used with pacman